SPF-18 (2017) User Reviews

It was not the actors that made the movie bad, it was the movie itself .

[vanessamendoza-76926 · 4/10 · 19 January 2018]

Yes the movie was bad, maybe some of these comments are a bit exaggerated, but the movie wasn't great.. let's be real. I'm snowed In, it's 2am , I need a good movie to watch. And this movie pops up in my recommendations every day.! So I was like oh what the heck noah's Cute ass is on the movie cover. Why not .? The movie starts ... the intro is already very long... unecessary. Fast forward the movie proceeds. The acting wasn't great. BUT.!!! We CANNOT blame the actors . Apart from this movie , these actors and actresses have acted in different projects .. and they were great. They were amazing.. Noah and Bianca .. both acted on the hit tv show "The Fosters" . They were great. So maybe it wasn't the acting . These actors and actresses were not exposed to their full potential, the script was CRINGE within itself . You know when you look really good, and you know you look good, but in order to take a good picture , Of course you need a good angle . You can't simply just take a good picture at a really bad angle with trash lighting, with your double chin exposed, and your face overshadowed. The whole movie was just a bad angle for these young actors. The script ,the plot, the wardrobe, the camera work. Everything .

Baffling Movie

[themegster88 · 3/10 · 13 November 2017]

So, the worst films (for me) are films that have everything going for them, people who generally know what they're doing, yet push something mediocre out. It's the most frustrating experience.

This camera-work is so strange, there are so many unflattering angles of these 'attractive' people. How difficult is it to line up a shot well? The had a good camera, lighting, and the sets weren't bad so why does this movie look so terrible, and why is there so much shaky cam?

The characters are all so one-note, nothing is really explained, the main couple go from madly in love to mutually breaking up, to both of them finding a new love and no one bats an eye, how would all this couple swapping work in real life? No jealousy, no betrayal, no, apparently. Because that would have made this film interesting. No one reacts to all the madness happening, and it kills the plot

All these beautiful people shack up in a mansion and all work out what they want to do and have their dreams come true, the brunette girl gets offered a fashion line at the same time as the guy gets a surf team, as if. Life doesn't work like that, sorry kids.

The director clearly has Hollwood connections (or good blackmail skills) to get Keanu Reeves and Pamela Anderson in, so why were they so terribly used? You could take them both out and it wouldn't affect the plot at all. All the young actors were just terrible, especially the singer guy, I don't even remember any of their names and I just finished watching it. That's how boring and generic they all were. Oh, and the dialogue was something copied from an Instagram #inspirationaquotes page. Spare me the pretension and put all this money to good use, please.

There was awesome music, nice sets and thought clearly put into this, such a shame it was so misguided.

But hey, I made it all the way though, and could laugh at it, so it's not entirely unredeemable.

What a waste of a lazy Sunday

[KongKristin · 2/10 · 5 November 2017]

The only things I liked about this movie was the 80's music, and seeing a lot of Noah Centineo without a shirt 💦👙(this is the emoji closest to panties 😆😉) The plot is horrible, and the acting is awkward. The IMDb rules says I have to write 5 lines in this review. You should not waste your precious lazy Sundays on this. I'm just using space now. Lol.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME

[laurenargento · 1/10 · 25 August 2018]

I watched this movie just to see Noah Centineo's perfect face and beautiful eyes but I was then met with the worst movie to ever exist. First of all the movie made no sense, there was like 6 different plot lines and I truly didn't understand any of the relationships. The acting sucked and the only good thing was the view of the beach. Also the movie just made no sense all around and I would NEVER recommend this to a friend, this movie should just be deleted from everywhere. However I still love you Noah.

The worst film ever made. And I wish I was kidding.

[Kandiman · 1/10 · 1 November 2017]

Dear all who love film,

Drop whatever you're doing and watch this film on Netflix right now, because this is the new shorthand for "worst film ever made" and it's so bad that it has to be seen to be believed. Let me give you the "kind" version of my review.

Let's start with the writing. The writing on this movie is so bad that I'm not entirely convinced it was written at all. I think it may have been vomited onto the page. This is essentially what happens if you get really, really stoned, write a thesis on existentialism whilst watching the OC then decide to adapt it into a screenplay and subsequent movie having consumed your body weight in acid on every day of the process. I mean, it's just terrible. In fact, this is an analogy that screenwriters will understand that demonstrates how bad the dialogue is: You know when you're struggling with a scene so you just drop in some placeholder dialogue to come back to and fix later? This is what happens when you don't go back and do that.

Now the acting. I'm using the word "acting" so charitably here that it physically pains me. I have never, in all my life, witnessed anything quite so terrible as the acting in this film. I mean, some of the lead actors would struggle to get a callback for a kindergarten nativity play. I'm surprised that they could get insured to make this movie... you'd think it'd be dangerous putting this much wood under studio lights. Honestly, it just needed a couple of squirrels and we could've replaced the nonsensical voice-over with David Attenborough narrating and improved the movie a thousandfold. And, somehow, Molly Ringwald pops up in it. If she's getting that hard up for cash, can we please start a Kickstarter rather than let her humiliate herself like this again? And, as if the director was painfully aware that the level of acting in this was bad, in an almost way too ironic act of definitely unintentional parody, there are cameos from Keanu Reeves and Pamela Anderson. Seriously. I couldn't make this up.

Oh, and the directing? Awful. Like, the worst student film-level bad. Every single choice is wrong. Every single one. There's footage used, shot on a camcorder by one of the actresses, that is the only footage in the entire movie that is framed in any way correctly. The entire movie looks like the camera operator did his job whilst sitting on a pneumatic drill in an earthquake except for the camcorder footage.

Ladies and gentleman, I submit to you that we no longer need to discuss Plan 9 as the worst piece of cinema ever. SPF18, quite frankly, makes it look like Citizen Kane.

Although, because I want to end on at least one positive, I'll give it this: That soundtrack is absolutely incredible. Like, every great song from the 80s appears at some point. It doesn't make sense for them to be there, but they are...

the only good part is that i wont be able to see worst than this movie

[rabiaderyaseksen · 24 August 2018]

It is not even sci-fi still minions are more realistic than this movie. If i had a chance to delete one of my memories, itd be it.

Worst movie ever!

[angeltriplett41 · 1/10 · 9 June 2018]

I'm pretty sure this movie was written by a 13 year old girl with rich parents who could bank roll the entire thing. The parents must have some horrible dirt on Keanu, Goldie Hawn and Rosanna Arquette in order to get them to be in this huge pile of garbage. The whole thing made me angry and I don't even know who to be most angry at the writers, director or the poor unfortunate souls who had to perform in this train wreck.

Spf-18 made me not want to wear spf. In fact it made me WANT skin cancer.

[shineward-97514 · 1/10 · 14 February 2018]

To start off this review I would like to say that there should be an option for 0 stars out of 10. This movie was so god awful it doesn't deserve even a quarter of a star. This movie gave a whole new meaning to the word god awful because it was so bad. This movie had all the right components for a great movie but they were in all the wrong places and in a movie with no plot whatsoever. If you are a parent wanting to give your child a punishment, SPF-18 will do justice. In fact, if you are any human being whatsoever wanting to punish yourself, a family member, a friend, or even your fish go ahead and put this movie on. My first question of many is what drugs the screenwriter, director and producer were on when they a) thought of this movie and b) decided to actually go through with it. My second question is how did this movie even get any funding? My final question is with the funding from this movie how much of it went to therapy for the actors and viewers for their ptsd of having to be in or see this movie? I've been in elementary school plays that had better acting than this one. While writing this review it got deleted up until this point and I've had to recall everything I wrote before. At first, I was thinking, "Wow I don't know if I can do this". But then, I remembered that I got through watching all of Spf-18 so surely I could rewrite this review. So here you have it. You're welcome for this review that I've taken so much time for which clearly the producers of Spf-18 didn't care to do.

My eyes are bleeding

[ana57709 · 1/10 · 2 November 2017]

This must have been one of the worst... "things" I have seen in a long time. Calling it a movie would even be offensive to a really bad movie.

First of all the weird voice over sounds like someone forced their mom to read lines they had come with 2 minutes earlier, which would actually in a way be a good thing because it would be the ONLY logical explanation to why she makes everything sound so painfully awkward. And I just cannot NOT address the fact that Molly Ringwald plays the mom, I mean I have seen desperation amongst once famous actors but she has just taken the crown. Not to mention that the script is so bad it makes you wanna rip your hair out. Overall SPF-18 looks like it could have easily been made by middle schoolers and the fact that anyone would call this piece of crap an actual movie hurts my intelligence.

Since this catastrophic piece of "film making" was Alex Israel's directorial debut I'm guessing we wont be seeing cinematic masterpieces from him any time soon. Goes to show that getting a bunch of fairly good looking yet extremely mediocre actors and placing them in a luxurious environment does not necessarily make a good movie, or you know, in this case a movie at all.

WOULDN'T RECOMMEND TO MY WORST ENEMY

[knittingandcatsarelife · 1/10 · 27 April 2018]

I make a habit of watching awful movies for fun and this is the first movie I could not finish. I made it halfway through the movie and there was still no plot. The acting is atrocious and the outfits are absolutely hideous. The celebrity cameos were embarrassing to them and their careers. The characters were poorly developed and did not represent the proper age range they were supposed to. Everything in this movie is predictable and cliche. DO NOT WATCH! SAVE YOUR EYES!

I Hate Netflix For This

[parveenjassal · 1/10 · 4 November 2017]

This movie is terrible. I'm wondering how it got made. It seems like the director was attempting to make a high-brow film that comes off more like an arrogant 13-year old's Philosophy essay. The main actress looks like she was fed the lines one minute before every scene was filmed. The lines are reminiscent of a Sunday Hallmark film. The country singer character seems like a caricature of country singers which was almost insulting. The cameos are bewildering, like an uncle bragging about knowing the President.

It's a Painful, and I repeat Painful watch. Why would Netflix stream such a movie? It's a sight for sore eyes. I understand now that the International Version of Netflix has no respect for its viewers.

Hidden Cringe Gem

[s4103721 · 10/10 · 18 November 2017]

This is by far one of the the greatest achievements in film cringe of all time.

I commend particularly the screen writer for their dedication to their job and sever lack of understanding as to what makes decent dialogue. It is simply unfathomable how someone could with such little ability in writing has a job. If this is their first piece of writing please do the world a favour and just stop. Pick a new career.

Feel sorry for Keanu, one of the nicest blokes in Hollywood having now tarnished his career with such a film.

For the pure entertainment factor and the amount of cringe from the outset this film is simply fantastic. It's too difficult put into words the emotional journey a viewer embarks on when watching. One scene you are laughing so hard at how terrible the writing and plot is to then be simply left awestruck at the lack conviction in the portrayal of characters by the actors. Even they realise this film is a joke and are only in it for a notch on their CV 's.

For an avid cringe enthusiast such as oneself highly, highly recommend. If there were ever to be an Academy Award for film cringe this has to be in the hall of fame.

Simply the Best.

Kind of interesting in an odd kind of way

[rob-gendreau · 6/10 · 24 November 2017]

I won't add tons to existing reviews but to say that it has redeeming moments. The young actors are often engaging, and the movie has a refreshing lack of cynicism. I suspect this might be something people dissect in later years when these folks have advanced further in their careers. Other reviewers have sneered that it seems like a student film, and in some ways it does...perhaps intentionally, given the proclivities of the protanganist.

One odd thing is that I don't think anyone proofed the credits—I think the film makers (and IMDb) have the two moms reversed.

In defense of SPF-18: On the perils of creativity

[SpookyUser · 5/10 · 4 November 2017]

SPF-18 is a bad movie but not bad in the same way Fast and the Furious; Geostorm or any other mainstream movie is bad, it's bad almost exclusively because making movies is hard and this is the first movie Alex Israel has made.

In fact, I almost feel empathetic toward Alex Israel, the film now hitting Netflix is going to result in a barrage of negative reviews and some really amazing negative reviews like the one above mine. We might even see this movie join the ranks of "Troll 2" or any other "so bad it's good movie." Yet, when I watched this movie it had a strangely positive effect on me. I think this is because I watched SPF-18 while taking a break editing my own short movie. In fact, it was exactly after I had finished the first cut of my movie and felt nauseous after seeing how unwatchable it was. Taking a break watching a "nice" movie - I thought - might make it easier to edit and distract me from the the reality of what I had made. Instead what I watched was SPF-18.

During the movie there was a lot going on in my brain, the first scene played with the main character doing a type of Vlog or whatever and I thought the movie was shaping up to be interesting. Then the film proper started. I noticed the bad acting first, as it's the most noticeable, and to begin with I considered stopping the movie - but instead I continued watching it. As the movie played, I started just feeling bad for Alex Israel. I thought of what went into making my own movie; how hard it was trying to find good actors; how long it took to film; how high the hopes we had going in were and how mediocre and quite frankly unwatchable the results were. All this while watching the cringe delivery of lines frankensteined together with drone footage made me imagine Alex Israel on set trying to explain each character's motivation in the hot sun, when probably he was unsure himself; the millions of takes it took to get a shot of a Jeep turning off the road that was ultimately for a scene that turned out to be so unnecessary i'm surprised it even came up as an idea. But most of what I was thinking is that Alex Israel knows SPF-18 isn't good, just like I know the movie I'm currently editing isn't good. Not only that, anyone watching the final cut of SPF-18 knows it's not good. The actors, the grip and Pamela Anderson doing her completely necessary cameo - they all know it's bad.

And yet here we are watching this movie on Netflix. This is certainly not what Alex Israel imagined in his brain when thinking of the movie and I can feel that deep deep deep down the movie has some goodness in it. If the script had better dialogue, if the acting was better we might have been watching something like Garden State, instead of what the film now is. But that's not what happened and this is what we are ultimately left to judge the movie by. What we are left with, while probably not what Alex Israel wanted, had a profoundly positive effect on me. As soon as SPF-18 was over I went back to editing feeling invigorated, for one reason alone: However bad my movie was, it wasn't going to be SPF-18 bad. I felt permission to suck. To a further extent, I, like Alex Israel, am going to make tons of bad movies before I make a good one. This is ultimately why making movies or choosing any creative pursuit is hard. Not because it's hard to technically make the film - though that too - but rather because it's hard to make bad things when you know that they are bad during the production of the bad thing. The slow and tortuous dynamic of making something bad and then getting a little bit better and then making something bad again but being a little bit better is how art works. You only get better by sharing it with the world. While there are certainly savants who have made perfect movies on their first try - that is not an accurate picture of how ordinary art is made. David Bayles and Ted Orland highlight this extremely well in their book "Art and Fear." Ordinary art is a skill that you get better at by getting humiliated most of the time. This message of "Art and Fear" and others like it, is hard to remember on it's own and it certainly is easier to remember when you are in between projects and harder to convince yourself of in the process of them. But to me SPF-18 provides the perfect reminder of "Art and Fear", "The War of Art" and others like them. Pressfield puts it best in this single sentence:

"It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot."

SPF-18 is exactly what Pressfield meant by that line. Being in the arena is not pretty, but it's worth it, because eventually; after getting knocked down enough times you will have made something worth making.

I look forward to Alex Israel's next movie because I know that it will be better than this and, perhaps, in a couple years we might be looking back on Israel as a talented director.

In the meantime I'm going to get back to editing my movie and perhaps, in the future sometime, watch SPF-18 and read this review again - when I need reminding of this message and how crucial it is to any creative endeavour.

My eyes and rectum are bleeding.

[natekochis · 1/10 · 21 November 2017]

My sister and I were looking for something to watch, didn't have to be perfect, but we were bored. Turning on Netflix, my normally helpful suggested list recommended this film. I have had explosive diarrhea ever since my viewing 'experience'. NEVER, and I mean never have I seen a film with writing that is so out of touch, so poorly thought through, so nonsensical. My little sister, 16 (the target audience) thought this was just as awful as I did. The plot doesn't exist. The movie doesn't have purpose, things just kind of happen without reason. I sincerely hope that anyone involved with the production of this film never finds work again. I hope that you are sorry for the sins you have committed.

Watch this movie if you enjoy:

[b_maes · 1/10 · 4 November 2018]

Watch this movie if you enjoy:

• a teenage girl casually pressuring their friend into losing her virginity
• a protagonist with no personality whatsoever, except that her thing is to creepily film everything and invade other people's privacy
• rejoicing when you think you've finally found the storyline, only to be disappointed when the alleged storyline randomly gets cut off
• a cringy music dude who writes the cringiest songs ever
• the opposite of character development
• one single shot of Keanu Reeves being confused because his discoball seems to have disappeared
• nobody learning anything

No sense at all

[claudia-a-cancela · 1/10 · 23 September 2018]

I still don't get what this movie was about. It made no sense at all, has no plot whatsoever. Impossible to understand why those popular actors would agree to appear.

There really are no words, but I'll try.

[sarahboud-49663 · 1/10 · 22 September 2018]

I randomly found this on Netflix with the description which seemed like a teen romance type film, so I decided to give it a shot. Honestly, I had to fast forward through the lengthy credits in the beginning, although at that point I am thinking to myself, "wow, this must be good, they put credits in the beginning, they must be really proud of the film and it must be at least decent. " WRONG, SO WRONG. You can pretty much tell from the first few minutes this is a dud. It seems incredibly unrealistic, which is really the only theme that really carried throughout the entire movie. I found the characters to all be some what irritating honestly. Also, "Johnny" the character who surfs, I felt was ripped off from the more talented Disney movie Johnny Tsunami. (Much better movie by the way, although that isn't hard to do) the entire story is so incredibly unrealistic it's actually frustrating. As far as Molly Ringwald, Keanu Reeves, and Pam Anderson... I can't believe they even agreed to take part by popping in on this. The ONLY reason I watched it in its entirety is because of the beach views and it was just so unbelievably bad I had to watch to see how much worse it got. It's the equivalent to watching someone do something really stupid they will regret and you simply can not look away due to the sheer disbelief.

Unless you want a laugh later and to agree with all the IMDB reviews of how atrocious this film was, save your time. I think I paid too much for it and it was free with my Netflix subscription.

I don't know what happened

[jubaidarashid · 1/10 · 17 September 2018]

I actually don't know what happened in this movie. There was no chemistry between the actors (maybe slight chemistry between Johnny and Camilla) but they did nothing with this. I don't understand how the main actress can just go from one guy to another without any reason or showing any emotional side.

I'm just so confused as to why this is even on Netflix. And why is Keanu Reeves in it ?! Wth.

Basically a bunch of good looking kids spent 2 nights house sitting . One plans to lose her virginity. Loses it pretty quick . We get told Johnny's dad died in surfing accident a million times. Random musician guy rocks up. They swap boyfriends ? I think if they even were ...? There is no explanation to anything. It ends and you're just wondering what even happened the past hour....

The only plus point is the Music which was awesome. Although it didn't really fit well with the scene... and another good point is Noah's in it. That's it.

Don't waste your time.

A parody?

[kunnapvivian · 5/10 · 16 September 2018]

Am I the only one thinking this has to be parody? Like no one in their right mind would make this and be serious about it.

If you're looking for a physically cringy and mindlessly stupid movie then ypu have hit the jack pot. Personally I really enjoyed it for its meme potential.

Worst writing ever

[lyndsaycolefw · 2/10 · 11 September 2018]

It wasn't the acting in this movie that was bad, it was a terribly written film. It was so mild, no conflict, and extremely boring. Spoiler alert but who doesn't get mad if their cousin ends up with the person they lost their virginity to? This is the dumbest movie I've ever seen.

I clapped when I saw Keanu Reeves

[luizuc · 10/10 · 7 September 2018]

Before tonight, I thought Netflix only made mediocre movies. I was definitely wrong: this is anything but mediocre.

It has been a time since I last accidentally saw something like this. Absolutely breathtaking.

It's everything we all really want: we get to know all there is to know about the characters after they are 30 sec in screen, basically no real development, a pletora of pointless subplots, the happiest happy-end of all time: it's perfect!

I recommend it to anyone searching for an intense and jaw-dropping movie. It made me feel physical pain for the first time since I inadvertently saw Foodfight on cable TV at 4 AM a few years ago.

Now, the unbelievably rich plot:

1) There is a girl. Her (only) traits:

i) She likes to film stuff;

ii) She is angry with her mother for some reason;

iii) She is still a virgin;

iv) She has a boyfriend with a dead father (he only became her boyfriend due to the death of the father).

2) The boyfriend's traits are:

i) His father is dead;

ii) He is sooo saaad;

iii) For some reason, Keanu Reeves (yeah, Keanu Reeves - not some Keanu Reeves' character: Keanu Reeves as Keanu Reeves) ask him to take care of his beach-house in Malibu.

He invites his girlfriend to stay with him in Keanu Reeves' beach-house.

3) The girl has a cousin. She is a joy to watch: the actress looks like she has eaten to much sugar.

*** all the actors are terrible, but terrible in an almost charming way - its not their fault, though, they had to deal with a terrible director and a bizarre script. ***

The girl invites her cousin to help herself get laid. Best character in the movie!

4) There is a country music musician. His introduction scene is certainly in my TOP 10 ANIME ENTRANCES OF ALL TIME. He is a friend of the girl's boyfriend and definitely a true sad-boy.

5) There is a lifeguard who firstly tries to arrest the musician for sleeping in a public beach, than, after a discourse made by the cousin ("California's a concept. It's a way of saying 'We're not Nevada, and thank God for that.'"), he becomes their best friend and (apparently) starts living whit them in Keanu Reeves' beach-house. Oh, and we also find out he was the apprentice of the boy's surfer dead dad.

6) The entire movie spans less than 72h, but they all manage to sort up all their lives without really changing anything other than who-is-kissing-who.

7) Apparently, 16k views on youtube is enough to totally change a music producer's mind.

8) There are MANY pointless and readily solved subplots.

9) The lucid dream sequence is simply b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

10) I clapped when I saw Keanu Reeves.

Waste of my time

[hallucinations-90583 · 15 September 2018]

Im so confused what was the plot what was the moral of the story. What a waste of time and of keanu reeves, noah centineo, & molly ringwald.

Aww that was cute

[kattatonic1 · 7/10 · 26 February 2018]

Wow, the reviewers sure trashed this. What were they hoping for? It was a light movie. It didn't promise life-changing insight. It made me smile. Maybe I'm the audience: 55-year-old woman. When a movie is so badly trashed I want to give it a 10 to average in a higher number, but I will give it an honest 7.

What Did I Just Watch!?

[summertrahan · 2/10 · 25 August 2018]

The acting was deplorable, story sad (pathetic) & what's with the celeb cameos?? Did they owe the devil their souls or was this based on a dare.

Seriously bad. If not for Noah to look at, this would be burnable. WTF netflix?!